We strive to make our worlds as close to real as possible, to create a truly immersive experience, so we’ve introduced a number of rendering features and improvements in this release.

Improved Refraction for Glass

Vertex Color Animation for Vegetation

Adaptive Automatic White Balance Correction

Screen-Space Dirt Effect and other updates

Extended IG Application Template

The updated IG (Image Generator) template is designed to be simple, easy to use 3D visualization component for distributed simulation & training systems. Its architecture enables easy connecting with industry-standard communication protocol (CIGI and HLA are currently supported).

Updated weather effects, global wind system affecting clouds and trees, support for ephemeris system and other improvements allow to create an immersive virtual world. There are also high-level systems for airport and aircraft lights, as well as dynamic entities controls.

Experimental Road Tool

Experimental version of the road tool is available now! It enables you to create roads simply by setting up and adjusting control points via the UnigineEditor. You can easily change the appearance of the road system by using your own custom geometry as building blocks for various complex elements of your roads — junctions, bridges, ramps etc.

Properties System Upgrade

We upgraded the Properties System. Now properties support complex data types (structure and array), providing an exceptional flexibility in implementing your application logic. For example, structures can also include other structures (nested) and can be organized in a hierarchy with parameter inheritance and overloading (much like in object-oriented programming).

Component System Evolution

We improved the Component System. Multiple performance optimizations, along with use of multi-threading as well as SDK Browser integration, make it even more powerful and easy-to-use. A number of operations could be performed in parallel, so it reduces the amount of code you have to write and speeds up development process.

Other Important Updates

Improved sky rendering

Improved Environment Probes

VR Optimizations

You can find the full list of improvements and more detailed overview of all UNIGINE 2.7.3 SDK features in our development blog.